Re: Christians And Their Love For Owning Nigger Slaves - The Southern Argument for Slavery

On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 21:12:31 +0000 (UTC), BeamMeUpScotty
<[email protected]> wrote:

>And don't forget, NRA HQ is a gun safe zone.  I guess they're afraid of 
>guns.   I thought that Wayne said that a gun is the best weapon against 
>the other guy with a gun?   Why doesn't he allow guns into NRA HQ?
>
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>The Southern Argument for Slavery
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>Southern slaveholders often used biblical passages to justify 
>slavery.Those who defended slavery rose to the challenge set forth by the 
>Abolitionists. The defenders of slavery included economics, history, 
>religion, legality, social good, and even humanitarianism, to further 
>their arguments.
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>Defenders of slavery argued that the sudden end to the slave economy would 
>have had a profound and killing economic impact in the South where 
>reliance on slave labor was the foundation of their economy. The cotton 
>economy would collapse. The tobacco crop would dry in the fields. Rice 
>would cease being profitable.
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>Defenders of slavery argued that if all the slaves were freed, there would 
>be widespread unemployment and chaos. This would lead to uprisings, 
>bloodshed, and anarchy. They pointed to the mob's "rule of terror" during 
>the French Revolution and argued for the continuation of the status quo, 
>which was providing for affluence and stability for the slaveholding class 
>and for all free people who enjoyed the bounty of the slave society.
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>Some slaveholders believed that African Americans were biologically 
>inferior to their masters. During the 1800s, this arguement was taken 
>quite seriously, even in scientific circles.Defenders of slavery argued 
>that slavery had existed throughout history and was the natural state of 
>mankind. The Greeks had slaves, the Romans had slaves, and the English had 
>slavery until very recently.
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>Defenders of slavery noted that in the Bible, Abraham had slaves. They 
>point to the Ten Commandments, noting that "Thou shalt not covet thy 
>neighbor's house, ... nor his manservant, nor his maidservant." In the New 
>Testament, Paul returned a runaway slave, Philemon, to his master, and, 
>although slavery was widespread throughout the Roman world, Jesus never 
>spoke out against it.
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>Defenders of slavery turned to the courts, who had ruled, with the Dred 
>Scott Decision, that all blacks — not just slaves — had no legal standing 
>as persons in our courts — they were property, and the Constitution 
>protected slave-holders' rights to their property.
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>Defenders of slavery argued that the institution was divine, and that it 
>brought Christianity to the heathen from across the ocean. Slavery was, 
>according to this argument, a good thing for the enslaved. John C. Calhoun 
>said, "Never before has the black race of Central Africa, from the dawn of 
>history to the present day, attained a condition so civilized and so 
>improved, not only physically, but morally and intellectually."
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>Defenders of slavery argued that by comparison with the poor of Europe and 
>the workers in the Northern states, that slaves were better cared for. 
>They said that their owners would protect and assist them when they were 
>sick and aged, unlike those who, once fired from their work, were left to 
>fend helplessly for themselves.
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>James Thornwell, a minister, wrote in 1860, "The parties in this conflict 
>are not merely Abolitionists and slaveholders, they are Atheists, 
>Socialists, Communists, Red Republicans, Jacobins on the one side and the 
>friends of order and regulated freedom on the other."

  Um ........ there WERE NO "communists"/"reds" in 1860.
  "Socialism" had barely been thought of. Not even enough
  anarchists to be worth noting. 

  Slavery persisted because of two things :
    1) MONEY 
    2) FEAR

  The profit angle is obvious and cloaking it in all sorts
  of fine religious reasoning cannot disguise the truth.

  The fear angle ... I seem to recall reading something
  a Roman general once said about putting somebody
  under your boot - you dare not let him rise again lest
  he slit your throat. In many places in the old south
  "black" slaves outnumbered the "whites". There was
  a terrible fear of retribution (not entirely misplaced
  either).